Playlist: Race & Ethnicity In The Media

Defining Stereotypes

The examples from this BuzzFeed series help set up and define what stereotypes are and how they operate in the context of media and interpersonal relationships. It might be useful to have students list stereotypes they’ve heard in relation to a particular group before showing the video(s). Choose one or more:

Growing Up and Navigating Race & Ethnicity

These first person narratives help address how individuals come to understand their identities, and the way those identities have stereotypes and social constructed ideas attached to them. Choose one or both:

Diversity, Immigration, and the “American Dream”

These videos offer two different media constructions and perspectives on the American Dream, allowing classes to discuss how values tied to the “melting pot” and assimilation were created and shape our current understandings of immigration and who is American.